Galilee

Inherited from Middle English Galilee, from Old French Galilee, from Medieval Latin Galilea, from Ancient Greek Γᾰλῑλαίᾱ (Gălīlaíā), from Hebrew גָּלִיל (galíl).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡælɪliː/

Galilee

2. A mountainous geographic region in northern Israel.
   • 2024 June 6, Marta Vidal, quoting Saed Shomaly, “‘Sometimes I wonder if I’ll come back’: Palestinian birdwatchers defy danger to scan the skies”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     Last spring I organised a race for birdwatchers in Jenin, and we had 21 Palestinians participating. They came from as far as the Naqab desert and the Galilee.

3. The Sea of Galilee.
4. A village in Narragansett, Rhode Island.

Galilee

1. Galilee (a mountainous geographic region in northern Israel)
   • c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.)‎^[2], published c. 1410, Matheu 4:23, page 1v, column 1, lines 13–17; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:

     and Iḣc ȝede aboute al galilee techynge in þe ſynagogıs of hem · ⁊ pꝛechynge þe goſpel of þe kyngdom ⁊ heelynge eùy langoꝛe ⁊ ech ſıkeneſſe among þe puple /

     And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in the synagogues of them, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every languor and each sickness among the people.[3]